Synopsis
Opinion writer Jonathan Capehart talks with newsmakers who challenge your ideas on politics, and explore how race, religion, age, gender and cultural identity are redrawing the lines that both divide and unite America. 'Cape Up' is a podcast from Washington Post Opinions.
Episodes
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Does Estonia understand democracy better than any of us?
28/03/2017 Duration: 14minPresident Kersti Kaljulaid is the first female and youngest person ever to be president of Estonia, a Baltic nation whose worries about a resurgent Russia are tempered by its faith in NATO and democracy.
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Joe Manchin on why he's still a Democrat
21/03/2017 Duration: 27minSenator Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) discusses Russian interference in the presidential election and the messy effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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Tony Blinken: 'This administration has turned our traditional openness into weakness'
14/03/2017 Duration: 34minTony Blinken, Deputy Secretary of State for President Obama, discusses how President Trump's foreign policy fits into America's traditional role in the world including Russia, NATO and American diplomacy.
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Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union
07/03/2017 Duration: 29minMatt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union discusses uninviting Milo Yiannopoulos to CPAC, his definition of “alt-right” and why conservatives support Trump.
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Professor Daina Ramey Berry
28/02/2017 Duration: 26minProfessor Daina Ramey Berry, discusses how she wrote about slavery from the slaves perspective instead of writing about them as objects, and why doing that is so important.
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Keith Ellison: The Democratic Party isn't only for Democrats
21/02/2017 Duration: 25minRep. Keith Ellison wants to be the next chair of the of the DNC and true to his progressive roots, Ellison also believes “the Democratic Party should always be the party that stands with the aspiring working people of America.”
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Tom Perez on why the Democratic party needs a dramatic culture shift
14/02/2017 Duration: 22minFormer Labor Secretary, Tom Perez, is now running to be the leader of the Democratic Party, a party he says needs a culture change that would allow democrats to connect with people again.
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Laurence Tribe on why the judiciary is "our last best hope"
07/02/2017 Duration: 28minAs a Harvard Law professor, Laurence Tribe, has taught people like former president Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts. So, as someone who would know, Tribe discusses President Trumps rocky relationship with the constitution.
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Lena Epstein: "I am a Jewish, millennial female, who is supporting Trump."
31/01/2017 Duration: 32minFormer co-chair of President Trump's Michigan campaign, Lena Epstein, explains why she supports Trump and how she navigates being a minority in her party.
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Arthur Brooks explains how dignity links Trump and Obama
24/01/2017 Duration: 26minThere's no one better to talk to about now President Trump than Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute. As the Author of "The Conservative Heart", Brooks discusses how dignity won Donald Trump the White House.
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A Donald Trump survival guide -- from the mouths of Obama officials
17/01/2017 Duration: 12minOn this special Inauguration episode, we re-visit interviews with members of Obama's administration as they give their best advice on how to protect his legacy and maintain the progress made.
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April Ryan on racial invisibility
10/01/2017 Duration: 24minApril Ryan, Washington Bureau Chief and White House correspondent for the American Urban Radio Network, discusses the need to be visible and vocal in upcoming years and discusses her latest book, ‘At Mama’s Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White’.
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When cabinet members need to reach the president, this is the man they talk to first
03/01/2017 Duration: 28minBroderick Johnson, White House Cabinet Secretary, is someone you probably have never heard of, but who has enormous power. He discusses meeting President Obama for the first time and working on perhaps his proudest achievement, My Brothers Keeper.
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Former Obama official on the Trump cabinet picks that are actually good hires
26/12/2016 Duration: 26minDerek Chollet, former Obama defense department official discusses Obama's foreign policy, Syria and the infamous red line and why some of President-elect Trump's picks to head the Pentagon and Homeland Security are actually good hires.
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How Valerie Jarrett became Obama's most trusted adviser, and outlasted all her predecessors
20/12/2016 Duration: 34minValerie Jarrett is the longest-serving senior adviser to President Obama. She has survived Washington by being proud of her accomplishments, but never forgetting for whom she worked.
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A call to arms from Attorney General Loretta Lynch
13/12/2016 Duration: 24minLoretta Lynch, Attorney General of the United States, discusses Russian involvement in the US presidential election, the rise of hate crimes in the US and calls for private citizens to keep protecting the civil rights of Americans.
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Ambassador Susan Rice on the challenges of national security
05/12/2016 Duration: 21minSusan Rice, national security advisor to President Obama, talks about the challenges of national security policy-making including Syria, Russia and Benghazi. She also discusses having the talk about race with her children.
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Here's how to preserve the Kennedy ideal in Trump's America, from a Kennedy
29/11/2016 Duration: 29minMark Shriver, president of Save the Children Action Network, talks about the importance of our country's children, his father, Sargent Shriver, what it's like being a Kennedy and his quest to get an interview with the pope.
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Michael Steele, Part 2: What Republicans need to do about all "the KKK stuff"
22/11/2016 Duration: 21minIn part two of Jonathan's conversation with the Michael Steele, former chairman of the RNC, Steele expands on his explanation of how the country got here in the first place and why black Americans didn't show up for Hillary Clinton.
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Michael Steele, Part 1: "Donald Trump is the freest president we've had in a generation"
15/11/2016 Duration: 20minIn part one of a two-part conversation with Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, talks about why President-elect Donald Trump will govern as a pragmatic populist.